“Spray down those monitors, that they were getting high readings and they wanted the monitors washed, and you sprayed just like that, like if it was raining down on them. You just shoot it directly at them. You would spray up in the air and let it arch over onto them.”

Jacobs Engineering ignored EPA worker safety directives, including providing showers and changing rooms for the laborers — without any backlash from the nation’s top environmental protection agency — and did nothing to investigate worker complaints that they were threatened with their jobs if they asked for respiratory protection.

Worker Michael McCarthy captured one of those threats on a secret video, testimony has shown.